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The Congo Wars: Conf... 07/11 Sally is currently reading:
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality (Paperback)
by Thomas Turner
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Battle Cry of Freedo... 06/17 Sally is currently reading:
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)
by James M. McPherson
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July 23
Artful Sentences: Sy... Sally marked as to-read:
Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style (Paperback)
by Virginia Tufte
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July 15
Bondage of the Mind:... Sally gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Bondage of the Mind: How Old Testament Fundamentalism Shackles the Mind and Enslaves the Spirit (Hardcover)
by R. D. Gold
bookshelves: religion, religion-judaism
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Sally Sally said: "In a straightforward and lucid way, the author examines and refutes common arguments made for a literal reading of the Torah whether as accurate history or as coming directly from God. Using both logic and evidence from archeology and textual scholar...more "
July 11
The Congo Wars: Conf... Sally is currently reading:
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality (Paperback)
by Thomas Turner
bookshelves: currently-reading
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July 08
God's Problem: How t... Sally gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer (Hardcover)
by Bart D. Ehrman
bookshelves: religion-christianity
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Sally Sally said: "Discusses the various, sometimes contradictory, ways in which the Bible explains the existence and meaning of suffering. The author, no longer a believer, explores the reasons behind these explanations being formulated in their own time and evaluates...more "
July 07
Mismeasure of Women:... Sally gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Mismeasure of Women: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex (Paperback)
by Carol Tavris
bookshelves: sociology, women
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Sally Sally said: "Examines critically basic assumptions and "conventional wisdom" underlying the stories modern culture tells about women, and that women tell about themselves, whether dealing with their relation to men, health and psychological issues, soci...more "
June 30
The Best American Sc... Sally marked as to-read:
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (The Best American Series)
by Tim Folger
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June 27
Gospel of Inclusion:... Sally gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Gospel of Inclusion: Reaching Beyond Religious Fundamentalism to the True Love of God (Hardcover)
by Bishop Carlton Pearson
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Sally Sally said: "What if everyone everywhere were "saved" already, and there was no hell or wrathful God? What if God is not a Christian -- or Moslem or Hindu -- and religious institutions and doctrines are man-made? An exposition of these ideas by a forme...more "
June 26
Surely You're Joking... Sally gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard P. Feynman
bookshelves: biography-autobiography
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Guns, Germs, and Ste... Sally gave 2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars to:
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond
bookshelves: history
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The Geography of Tho... Sally marked as to-read:
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why (Paperback)
by Richard Nisbett
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Sally's favorite quotes

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"A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature."
Albert Einstein

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"If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. "
Arthur Miller

"Boundless Space is our home. Thither we shall go, and there indeed we even now are. We are not only connected by unbreakable links with the very heart of Infinitude, but we ourselves are that heart. This is the still small path of which the ancient philosophers taught; the path of the spiritual Self within. "
G. de Purucker

"Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion]. "
H. P. Blavatsky

""Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all. "
— Rabbi Israel Baal Shem-Tov




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